Water Wings Instant Failure
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I have used the Instant card Water Wings twice in the Wilds of Eldraine Draft and both times it has not functioned in the correct manner.
When cast, this spell gives a target creature Base Power 4/4 and flying and hexproof until end of turn. On both occasions I attempted to cast this spell I cast it during the opponent's turn, with the prompt in the bottom corner reading: "To Blockers". This means that my blockers have not been declared yet.
On both occasions I attempted to cast this spell, the opponent attacked with a flying creature, and I attempted to block the creature by declaring my blocker (now with flying). If the spell had worked correctly, I would have prevented taking any damage (as well as killing their creature while my own survived).
On both occasions, however, my attempt to declare my creature as a blocker was completely skipped. Presumably this happened because the game did not register my creature as a flying creature, and therefore not able to block.
No damage was prevented and I wasted my mana, my spell and I failed to kill their flying creature, with the only card at my disposal to do so. This completely changed the tide of the contest.
I am uncertain how to address this issue, but it is clearly a bug of some description.
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[Deleted User] commented
Don't forget to go to https://mtgarena-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/requests/new/ and select "Report a problem with my event."
Only reasons I can think of for this not to be a bug would be if the creature had Menace or was Ingenious Prodigy.